“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”

— Giacomo Casanova

The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.)
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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798

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